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Northern Regional Police now using state-of-the-art 3D virtual training system York Dispatch A York County police department is the first in the nation to agree to lease a 3D virtual-reality training system for five years that officers have said feels just like real life. Northern York County Regional Police tested the Wrap Reality system in January, and The York Dispatch was there to watch. "You truly believe youre there," Chief Dave Lash said after the demonstration. "Your mind believes it. ...

York City arts group purchases site to transform into new theater space Updated 10:36 PM; Musicals, comedy shows and film screenings will bring life to the former Dallas Theatre in Dallastown after a performing arts group purchased the space. Weary Arts Group took the leap to purchase the 5,000-square-foot space three months ago for $88,000, according to CEO Calvin Weary. Since then, Weary and his crew have been working to reconstruct the old theater into a space the performing arts troupe can...

York County school board member resigns, calls its leadership’s behavior ‘abhorrent and beyond belief’ Updated 9:43 PM; After making repeated allegations of illegal and unethical conduct against Northeastern School District officials, Christopher Leh has resigned from the school board, effective immediately. Leh sent his resignation letter to board Vice President Mike Redding on Friday. In the le...

Northern York County man accused of threatening Scott Perry pleads to lesser offense Updated 8:26 PM; A northern York County man who police said threatened U.S. Rep. Scott Perry has avoided trial by pleading guilty to a summary nontraffic offense. Mark S. Malinowski has “never been in trouble before in his whole life,” defense attorney Rick Robinson said, and simply “got caught up” in the heat of political rhetoric. Malinowski, 64, of Washington Township, appeared before Dillsburg-area...

69-year-old man sentenced for selling fatal dose of heroin to York woman Updated 10:10 PM; A 69-year-old York man has been sentenced to state prison for his role in selling heroin to a woman who overdosed and died from the drug in 2018. Peter Kenneth Lucas pleaded guilty in York County on Tuesday the first-degree felony of drug delivery resulting in death, court records state. As part of a negotiated plea agreement, he was sentenced to five to 15 years in prison and given credit for the 740 da...

Missing central Pa. woman was victim of shooting last year: police Updated Apr 13, 2021; Facebook Share A woman who police reported missing earlier Tuesday was also the victim of a shooting last year in York County, according to previous reports. 28-year-old Meredith Celeste Keltner was first reported missing on March 28 and last sent a text message response on April 7, state police said. She is known to have mental health issues and has history of using illegal drugs. She also has a compromi...

Edia “Richie” Lawrence, 22, is already serving a life sentence without the possibility of parole for the brutal murder of 19-year-old Ahshantianna Ali Johnson, known as Shanti.

York-area woman now reported missing survived being shot, run over last year York Dispatch A York-area woman who survived being shot five times, run over by her attackers car and left for dead on a quiet North Codorus Township road last summer is now missing, according to state police in Carlisle. Meredith Celeste Wilson Keltner, 28, was last seen  March 28 and last texted someone on April 7, said Trooper Megan Ammerman, a state police spokesperson. She confirmed to The York Dispatch on Tuesda...

Estimated 5,000 gallons of sludge discharged in leak at York City wastewater plant York Dispatch The state Department of Environmental Protection plans to issue a notice of violation to York City after overflowing digesters at the wastewater treatment plant discharged an estimated 5,000 gallons of sludge. The upcoming notice of violation comes as initial reports of the March 27 incident, filed by a general manager at the facility, detail that an overflow of two digesters caused the sludge t...

York County releases settlement amount with estate of accused double murderer who killed self in prison York Dispatch York County has settled a lawsuit with the estate of a woman who killed herself in York County Prison after being charged in a double murder. Veronique Aundrea Henry, 32, of East Manchester Township, hanged herself with a prison bedsheet on Sept. 15, 2016 — two days after the murders and one day after she and husband Paul Jackson Henry III were captured in Dauphin County foll...